1. Byzantium; The speaker says that before him floats an image—a man or a shade, but more a shade than a man, and still more simply ‘an image.’ The speaker hails this ‘superhuman’ image, calling it ‘death-in-life and life-in-death.’ A golden bird sits on a golden tree, which the speaker says, it is a _______?
A:) blood
B:) miracle
C:) spiritual
D:) mystery
springline- Correct option: B:) miracle
2. Byzantium; The pronounced differences in ‘Byzantium’ line lengths make its stanzas appear very haphazard; however, they are actually quite regular: each stanza constitutes eight lines, and each rhymes ______?
A:) ABBCCDDA
B:) ABAACCDD
C:) ABABBCCD
D:) AABBCDDC
springline- Correct option: D:) AABBCDDC
3. Morte d’ Arthur; The setting of the story is that of medieval. There is a medieval atmosphere, medieval wardrobe as well as medieval scenery too. This is clear from the expressions ‘the armed heels,’ ‘the white samite, my sillies, wonderful, the brand Excalibur. ‘Essentially, only the background is medieval in nature, but the actual story is Victorian and_______?
A:) Neo-Classical
B:) Modern
C:) imaginative
D:) Spiritual
springline- Correct option: B:) Modern
4. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the_______?
A:) Irish Free State
B:) Rome Free State
C:) Italy Free State
D:) Roman State
springline- Correct option: A:) Irish Free State
5. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces__________?
A:) The Dying Swan
B:) Timbuktu
C:) The Lotos Easter
D:) Nothing Will Die
springline- Correct option: B:) Timbuktu
6. Yeats’s account of ‘Sailing to Byzantium’; now he has arrived at the city itself, and is able to describe it. In ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ the speaker stated his desire to be ‘out of nature’ and to assume the form of a golden bird; in ‘Byzantium,’ the bird appears, and scores of dead spirits arrive on the backs of ______?
A:) dolphins
B:) hills
C:) tombs
D:) lake
springline- Correct option: A:) dolphins
7. Morte d’ Arthur; King Arthur was injured, Sir Bedivere made every possible effort not to leave him alone, but ultimately he had to obey his lord. As Bedivere walks away, he passes by the tombs of great men well lit by the light coming from the sky. Finally, he reaches near the ______?
A:) river
B:) lake
C:) sea
D:) tombs
springline- Correct option: B:) lake
8. Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland, and educated there and in London. He was a Protestant and member of the Anglo-Irish community. He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in _______?
A:) 1886
B:) 1887
C:) 1888
D:) 1889
springline- Correct option: D:) 1889
9. Claribel’ and ‘Mariana‘, which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including _______?
A:) John Keats
B:) P.B. Shelley
C:) S.T. Coleridge
D:) Dr. Johnson
springline- Correct option: C:) S.T. Coleridge
10. W.B. Yeats; The early works were both conventional and, according to the critic Charles Johnston, ‘rutterly unIrish’r, seeming to come out of a ‘rvast murmurous gloom of dreams’r. Although Yeats's early works drew heavily on Shelley, Edmund Spenser, and on the diction and colouring of pre-Raphaelite verse, he soon turned to Irish mythology and folklore and the writings of _______?
A:) William Blake
B:) Wordsworth
C:) Byron
D:) John Keats
springline- Correct option: A:) William Blake
11. Morte d’ Arthur; Bedivere was astonished to see an arm coming out from the water, which caught the sword and took it inside the lake. As soon as he returned back, the king could make outright from his eyes that the task was completed and told him that now, his death was near. The king asks Bedivere to take him to the place where he saw the _____?
A:) Soldier
B:) treasure
C:) tombs
D:) lake
springline- Correct option: C:) tombs
12. From 1900, W.B. Yeats, poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. When he won awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ?
A:) 1922
B:) 1923
C:) 1924
D:) 1925
springline- Correct option: B:) 1923
13. Tennyson entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827, where he joined a secret society called the Cambridge Apostles. A portrait of Tennyson by George Frederic Watts is in Trinity's collection. At Cambridge, Tennyson met Arthur Hallam and William Henry Brookfield, who became his closest friends. Who came to stay with his family during the summer and became engaged to Tennyson's sister, Emilia Tennyson ?
A:) Charles
B:) Arthur Hallam
C:) William Henry Brookfield
D:) William Godwin
springline- Correct option: B:) Arthur Hallam
14. Byzantium’ is a sequel written by W. B. Yeats to his poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’. This poem was written four years later in 1930 and published in the book ‘Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems’ in _____?
A:) 1932
B:) 1933
C:) 1934
D:) 1935
springline- Correct option: A:) 1932
15. Byzantium; The fourth stanza of the poem details what the poet has witnessed in the city at midnight. At midnight on the Emperor’s pavement, a fire appears. It is neither fed by fuel sticks nor started by striking a piece of iron against a flintstone. ‘Blood-begotten’ spirits can also be interpreted as the spirits of those who died during the world war and the civil war in ______?
A:) Italy
B:) Rome
C:) Ireland
D:) Iceland
springline- Correct option: C:) Ireland
16. Who asks whether, in this poem (Byzantium), Yeats chooses idealism or materialism and answers his own question, ‘Yeats chooses both and neither. One cannot know the world of being save through the world of becoming (though one must remember that the world of becoming is a meaningless flux aside from the world of being which it implies)’ ?
A:) Harold Pinter
B:) Harold Bloom
C:) John Crowe Ransom
D:) Cleanth Brooks
springline- Correct option: D:) Cleanth Brooks
17. Morte d’Arthur; Bedivere does as directed. He made every possible effort to take the king to that place before he dies. As soon as they reached there, Bedivere was surprised yet again to see three queens standing and crying in one voice. Arthur insists on being taken into the _____?
A:) Canal boat
B:) Miller boat
C:) Dante boat
D:) Ship
springline- Correct option: A:) Canal boat
18. Morte d’Arthur, which could also be called ’The Passing of Arthur,’ is considered to be one of the most famous works of Tennyson. It was included in his ‘Idylls of the King’ after it was completed in _______?
A:) 1841
B:) 1842
C:) 1843
D:) 1844
springline- Correct option: B:) 1842
19. Morte d’Arthur; Describing sunrise by use of expressions like ‘fresh beam of the springing east,’ ‘like a streamer of the northern morn,’ ‘every morning brought a noble chance’ and ‘verge of dawn’ have reflected the positives aspects of King Arthur and his sword. Expressions like ‘dark strait of barren land,’ ‘wasteland where no one comes,’ ‘icy caves,’ ‘frozen hills’ have added only to make the mood of the poem even more gloomy and reflect an unforgiving world along with reflecting a typical northern European_________?
A:) Desert landscape
B:) mountain range
C:) winter landscape
D:) Dry landscape
springline- Correct option: C:) winter landscape
20. In 1997, Yeats biographer R. F. Foster observed that Napoleon's dictum that to understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty ‘is manifestly true of W.B.Y. He began writing his first works when he was seventeen; these included a poem—heavily influenced by_______?
A:) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B:) John Dryden
C:) Tennyson
D:) Wordsworth
springline- Correct option: A:) Percy Bysshe Shelley
21. In 1850, after William Wordsworth's death and Samuel Rogers' refusal, Tennyson was appointed to the position of Poet Laureate; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Leigh Hunt had also been considered. He held the position until his own death in _____?
A:) 1889
B:) 1890
C:) 1891
D:) 1892
springline- Correct option: D:) 1892
22. Tennyson fulfilled the requirements of this position, such as by authoring a poem of greeting to Princess Alexandra of Denmark when she arrived in Britain to marry the future King Edward VII. In 1855, Tennyson produced one of his best-known works, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade‘, a dramatic tribute to the British cavalrymen involved in an ill-advised charge on 25 October 1854, during the _____?
A:) Civil War
B:) Crimean War
C:) French Civil War
D:) Temne War
springline- Correct option: B:) Crimean War
23. Morte d’ Arthur; The poet wants the reader to feel the pain of departing from a loved one, and that is the reason the poem even lacks any rhyme scheme. It is kept unrhymed to keep the focus of the reader intact. The tone is well suited for the poem, and we feel sorry for King Arthur and feel pity for Sir Bedivere, who does not know how to accept the fact that his lord is no more alive. The tone of the poem is_______?
A:) Melancholic
B:) enthusiasm
C:) Formal
D:) Hypocritical
springline- Correct option: A:) Melancholic
24. Tennyson initially declined a baronetcy in 1865 and 1868 (when tendered by Disraeli), finally accepting a peerage in 1883 at Gladstone's earnest solicitation. In 1884 Victoria created him Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 11 March _____?
A:) 1883
B:) 1884
C:) 1885
D:) 1886
springline- Correct option: B:) 1884
25. Yeats had a lifelong interest in mysticism, spiritualism, occultism and astrology. He read extensively on the subjects throughout his life, became a member of the paranormal research organisation ‘The Ghost Club‘ (in 1911) and was especially influenced by the writings of ______?
A:) Tennyson
B:) Oscar Wilde
C:) Emanuel Swedenborg
D:) Robert Burns
springline- Correct option: B:) Oscar Wilde
26. Tennyson; Although Albert, Prince Consort was largely responsible for Tennyson's appointment as Laureate, Queen Victoria became an ardent admirer of Tennyson's work, writing in her diary that she was ‘much soothed & pleased’ by reading ‘In Memoriam A.H.H.‘ after Albert's death. The two met twice, first in ________?
A:) April 1862
B:) May 1862
C:) March 1862
D:) Feb 1862
springline- Correct option: A:) April 1862
27. Morte d’Arthur King Arthur starts speaking to Sir Bedivere. He tells him of his mighty nature and how and from where he took up the sword to become a king and how he was coerced into his present condition. He also tells him how he feels sad about the death of his brave men whom he lost in the ______?
A:) Sea
B:) War
C:) riverside
D:) boat accident
springline- Correct option: B:) War
28. The major themes of ‘Byzantium’ can be ‘Human imperfection vs. perfectness of art’ and ‘Terrestrial life vs. Spiritual or afterlife’. The setting of the poem is ‘a night in the city of Byzantium’. The great Cathedral in the poem refers to the church of St. Sophia, which is built in the central part of Byzantium or the Eastern part of________?
A:) Italy
B:) England
C:) Rome
D:) West Italy
springline- Correct option: C:) Rome
29. Byzantium; The ‘drunken soldiers’ and ‘night-walkers’ indicate the poet’s disappointment over the degrading cultural and social values that addressed in most of his poems. Further, the second part of the stanza comments on the insignificant life of the human. The moonlit or starlit dome of the cathedral, suggest that human life is filled with ‘complexities’ caused mainly by the ‘mire of human _____?
A:) emotion
B:) blood
C:) thoughts
D:) Vein
springline- Correct option: D:) Vein
30. Byzantium; Yeats has used the ‘mummy-cloth’ as a Symbol of human experiences and periods of aging and death. The cloth wound around indicates the complexities of life a soul carries around after death to be unwounded before entering the afterlife. A similar idea is presented by the poet in his other poem ‘All Soul’s Night’ published in _______?
A:) 1920
B:) 1921
C:) 1922
D:) 1923
springline- Correct option: A:) 1920